Graduate Students team with UNC to host an innovative graduate conference focused on Classics pedagogy

Student organizers Cliff Robinson and Erika Weinberg (UNC) received a $5,000 grant from the Keenan-Biddle Fund to support this innovative conference. On the Duke side of the planning committee were Tripp Young and Mack Zalin, but almost all the Duke ClSt students were collaboratively involved in the conception of and arrangements for the conference.

CAMWS Papers Accepted

January 2014 Classical Studies graduate students Tripp Young, Mack Zalin, and John Aldrup-MacDonald will be presenting papers at the annual CAMWS meeting in Waco, Texas, in April 2014.

Tripp Young will speak on "Delphi in Plato's Laws"

Mac Zalin will speak on "The Dichotomy of Classical Antiquity in Viaggio in Italia"

John Aldrup-MacDonald will speak on "Peasant and Power in Souk-el-Khmis: the Imperial Archive in CIL VIII 10570"

Graduate Student Papers accepted for APA/AIA and AHA

The following students will be giving papers at the APA/AIA meetings in Chicago in January 2014:

Rob Dudley, "How did People Back Then Understand This?," APA panel on the oral benefits of Latin

Katie Langenfeld, "The Circulation of the Historia Augusta: Reconsidering its Anonymity"

Meanwhile, over in Washington DC, Tim Shea will be presenting his paper, "Drunken Celts: Wine Consumption and the Barbarian in Ancient Historiography" at the American Historical Association

National Fellowship Awards for summer research

Winter 2013. Classical Studies graduate student Rob Dudley has won two national competitions in support of his summer work at the American Academy at Rome: Eta Sigma Phi Scholarship (declined), and the CAMWS Mary A. Grant Award (accepted).

Jessica Vahl was awarded a fellowship in suport of her participation in the Vienna International Summer University / Scientific World Conceptions 2013 “Climate Studies” Program.

Classical Studies Graduate Students win Fellowship competitions

December 2012 The following Classical Studies Graduate Students have won competitive fellowships at Duke for 2013-2014:

New Classical Studies PhD wins ACLS Fellowship Award

Feb. 2012. Recent Classical Studies PhD Alex Loney has won the New Faculty Fellowship Award from the American Council of Learned Societies

Classical Studies Graduate Student wins Fay Horton Sawyier Fellowship

February 2012 - Joseph Miller has won an external award for the final year of his dissertation work: the Fay Horton Sawyier Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago